Pics from mail directly in iPhoto - Geotags removed?

A friend sent me a few pictures he took with his iPhone (4) via email.
I received those pictures and opened the emails with Apple mail (5.3).
Then I chose the option "add to iPhoto" to save the pictures into my iPhoto-library (iPhoto11 9.3.2).
But when I was looking at those pictures I noticed, that all the metadata (time, date and geotag) was missing!
To find out what went wrong I took a more complicated approach: I did save the (very same!) pictures out of mail onto my desktop and from there I did drag them into iPhoto.
And now I have all the data I was missing before!
So my question is: is that a bug or a feature?
And if it's a "feature", why is it, that the more complicated way to save pictures from email into iPhoto the better one??
Thanks in advance for the help!

Many folks are reporting that importing directly from an email is broken in 10.8.2. So your photos are still on your email.
Regards
TD

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